Cricket injuries - a longitudinal study of the nature of injuries in South African cricketers

Abstract

SA Sports Medicine Vol.15(2) 2003: 4-8

International cricket injury surveillance: a report of five teams competing in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

“…Similarly, the completeness of the data attests to the efficacy of using a networked electronic data collection system as opposed to most other similar programmes in other sports that have relied upon paper based data collection,3–6 12 15 which although effective, are likely to require significantly more collection and processing human resource. As only one of the participating teams, South Africa,11 has previously published any injury data, this study is perhaps an important first step in broadening and deepening the general knowledge of injury rates and risk factors previously only report by a few individual nations 9 13 16…”

Throwing workload and injury risk in elite cricketers

“…Bowling workloads were not considered in this study; however, all seven injuries have been previously identified as being common to overhead-throwing athletes,25–27 and previous research has acknowledged that the majority of glenohumeral injuries in cricketers occur as a direct result of throwing 28 29. Of the injured players, only one was a bowler and one was an all-rounder, which further downplays the possible influence of bowling loads.…”

Spikes in acute workload are associated with increased injury risk in elite cricket fast bowlers

“…A survey of all West Indian cricket matches between June 2003 and December 2004 concluded that 40% of all injuries were sustained by fast bowlers and that fast bowlers missed a combined total of more than 234 days of play due to injury 7. Similar research in South African cricket has shown that 33% of all injuries over a 3-year period were sustained by fast bowlers 8. It is clear that the performances of international and domestic cricket teams have been hindered due to the high injury rates sustained by fast bowlers.…”